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Blogger on Philippine affairs, opinions not news. Former banker, US army, student of math and journalism. Blog: joeam.com

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Why the Philippines Was Never Going to Become Singapore—No Matter Who Promised It By Karl Garcia Rodrigo Duterte was not the first Filipino leader to invoke Singapore as a model, and he will not be the last. Long before his 2016 campaign promise to “make the Philippines like Sin…

Absolutely terrific article. One wonders why Philippine leaders are unable to grasp this. Author is Karl Garcia

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13.01.2026 01:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Thai bitterness over getting stomped by the Philippine basketball team at the SEA Games has gone into full "hater" mode. Not fun to read. I suggest ignoring the Thais until they grow up. Just keep building PH bball power.

24.12.2025 02:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to Filipino athletes for their fantastic competitiveness and wins in the SEA Games. Highly inspiring. The only thing holding Filipinos back is their government's lack of dedication to winning. They're too busy stealing and driving fast cars.

19.12.2025 00:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rep De Lima earned her voice of authority as a woman of integrity who spent 7 years maliciously imprisoned by the father of the weirdly popular Sara Duterte. C'mon Filipinos. Prove you can think, and feel injustice. DDS are paid to make you think backward. Stop rewarding them.

17.12.2025 01:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Philippines as Asia’s Humanitarian Lifeline: Preparing for a Taiwan Evacuation Crisis By Karl Garcia If conflict erupts in the Taiwan Strait—a scenario that experts now discuss with alarming regularity—the Philippines will be thrust into the center of one of the largest humanitarian…

Plan or find hell on earth. It's a choice. Article by Karl Garcia.

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16.12.2025 00:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder how US Embassy visa processing in Manila will change. It used to be "you are a single woman under 40", instant denial. Now it's going to be, "uh, you're brown", instant denial?

America is ugly today.

11.12.2025 23:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Philippines at Sea: How the National Maritime Council and Blue Economy Bills Can Transform Our Oceans By Karl Garcia The Philippines is a nation defined by its waters. As an archipelagic state with thousands of islands, our seas are more than just borders—they are the backbone of our economy, the s…

An excellent brief on maritime laws in the hopper and the promise of a more modern seafaring Philippines. Valuable read for those wanting to see a first world Philippines. Author is Karl Garcia.

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10.12.2025 01:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's my observation that most Christians praise Jesus but a whole lot don't listen.

30.11.2025 23:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The US is a murderous rogue state. Republicans lost their humanity, and their commitment to democracy. The world is paying the price for this weakness of American character.

30.11.2025 00:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bato is already in jail, mentally, and just starting to pay the price for his role as Duterte's Chief Executioner. He'll be crying and whining for the rest of his life. Accountability can be merciless.

28.11.2025 02:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Frankly, it doesn't matter to me who you elect as President as long as that person is honest. That character trait will become government's character. It's why Aquino succeeded, not because he was a liberal or smart or worked hard.

28.11.2025 02:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I shake my head at Sara Duterte saying she's ready to be president. What a lack of class. If classless arrogance, corruption, incompetence, and giving the Philippines to China is what Filipino voters want, then she'll get elected. And the US will not be the only country that voted itself into hell.

25.11.2025 23:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I write of DDS I have to censor myself to take out all the swear words. Most people are for the Philippines, and sense, and honesty, and the values in the Constitution and Bible. Others love power and money and playing the uneducated for fools. DDS are miserable people.

23.11.2025 00:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Co plus 17 others seems like overkill of nonames and underkill of names. Where are the senators, the Bersamins, the Go?

22.11.2025 03:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FB is an invasive species that watches your every move, tracking you as if you were Jason Bourne. It is a force causing despair, depression, laughter, hissy fits, and extraction of money from your various accounts. I don't take it so seriously myself. It's like the Matrix but has way more cats.

13.11.2025 08:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, I've observed that much of the time his feet are too close together (weak reaction time) and he seldom correctly guesses the offensive player's likely move (not studying players?). Do Lakers have a defense coach? Who?

13.11.2025 05:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What is INC's problem, anyway? They think Jesus was political? They have their own flock under control and now want to control others' flocks?

13.11.2025 01:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh my, it’s incredible: The senators who betrayed Leila De Lima and enabled Duterte EJKs Analysis and Opinion By Joe America It’s incredible. The Philippines is stuck in poverty and corruption because patronage, not principle, rules the land. You can’t change by staying the…

Some things are worth remembering.

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10.11.2025 05:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yo, Philippines!!!

04.11.2025 03:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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um. you ok?

30.10.2025 03:32 👍 6151 🔁 1150 💬 780 📌 105

LOL, Senator Cayetano wants minority representation on the ICI, as if police work needs to get screwed up by politics. The worst senators in my book are too many to list down, but he's definitely pushing for the bottom.

25.10.2025 04:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a difference a change of Ombudsman makes. From enabling crime to prosecuting crime. Man, Martires was awful. We can see that clearly now.

23.10.2025 02:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fake book in that it does not represent a human's desire to connect personally at the heart and brain, but to give you plastic, say it is wood, and connect at the wallet. Yes, lol.

20.10.2025 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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When computers run human thinking Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We are explorers, each and every one of us, moving forward, because there is no backward, into the era in which computers do human thinking. The flood has begun …

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20.10.2025 02:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Duterte family seems to whine a lot. Accountability is a heavy load.

18.10.2025 08:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They hatched together under the mango tree drunk on red horse.

16.10.2025 02:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We don't live normally anymore more. And we're never going back to it.

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16.10.2025 02:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We don't live normally anymore more. And we're never going back to it.

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16.10.2025 02:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To me the Discayas are the thick-faced rot that keeps the Philippines behind the rest of the world as huge investments are rerouted from helping Filipinos to living high. And legislators who steal are not patriots.

16.10.2025 01:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The reading room is getting smaller as booksellers know. And people are getting dumber as looking around will show.

13.10.2025 05:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0